trapping. They are very well spoken of and of all the Chinese races are the cleanest and most home loving. Then came the Russian and fastened on the cast his autocratic military government to which he raised a monument that will endure for long years the roads and fortifications that guard the approaches to Vladivostok. When you realize that in every valley lie barracks such as you see in the pictures you may begin to realize what the government have spent here. Someone is today going without his interest payments.

Then the revolution. Well it's a case of putting a round peg in a square hole. It doesn't fit and cannot fit and the same applies to Russia everywhere more or less. They are trying to run before they walk and all that happens is that the theorists play into the hands of the unscrupulous and both ride the poor ignorant peasant to a finish.

Well I have wound up the books tonight and am very tired. Goodnight dearest. Your own. Stuart

The last entry ended abruptly, and the collection contains no letters written on the return trip to Vancouver. When Stuart undertook to edit those "Letters from Afar," he wrote a postscript to cover the final years of his Siberian adventure.

Preparations were well under way for our departure. We went back (Hardisty and l) to Second River to bid farewell to our friends there. This farewell was in no sense an Au revoi’r for it was a final and tragic leave taking, as unquestionably they felt that we were leaving them to the tender mercies of the Bolshevik mobs in Vladivostok, hitherto held in check only by the Allied armed forces. On. May 9th. . the Empress of Japan entered the Golden Horn. Embarkation proceeded smoothly. We enjoyed the return voyage across a placid Pacific. Not the least part of that enjoyment was association with the

civilian passengers, most of whom had come from the British colony of Hong Kong...

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